Why the airplanes?

Simple, really. Guys like machines. Most of Paul's friends ride motorcycles. Paul does agree that motorcycles are cool, but airplanes are more cool. They can fly.

If you go 150 MPH on a motorcycle, you will get a ticket, or worse.

If you go 150 MPH in an airplane, your going pretty slow!

Also, Paul enjoyed the great movies like, "Twelve O'Clock High", "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo", "Flying Leathernecks", etc. as a child. He still enjoys them to this day.

Paul developed a great admiration for the men who flew these airplanes and did some of the craziest shit in history to get the job done.

Paul met a WWII fighter pilot at an airshow once and he summed it up this way.

"If we weren't trying to kill each other it would have been fun.

Paul still hates the fact that we live in a world where we need these kind of things but has nothing but admiration for those who put themselves in a situation where people are trying to kill them and realizes that they do it so the people who are trying to kill them don't kill us.